The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Recto of print
  • Verso of original mount

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

Music – A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. II, 1922

Gelatin silver print; 23.8 x 19.3 cm (image/paper/first mount); 56.5 x 46.2 cm (second mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.775

 

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